Jan. 5, 2014
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in New York in September 2011. / Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images

by Alistair Barr, USA TODAY

by Alistair Barr, USA TODAY

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and new owner of The Washington Post, suffered a kidney stone attack while celebrating the New Year in the Galapagos Islands and had to be rushed back to the U.S.

On New Year's Day, an Ecuadorian navy helicopter flew Bezos from Academy Bay in Santa Cruz Island, where he was aboard a cruise ship, to his private jet on Baltra Island. He was then taken to the U.S. for emergency treatment, according to a summary of local newspaper reports by The Galapagos Digital website.